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Puffy old fellows with nosegays in their button-holes grew gallant and young in Mrs. Dillingham's presence, filled her ears with flatteries, received the grateful tap of her fan, and were immediately banished to the dining-room, from which they emerged redder in the face and puffier than ever.
Dick, outside in the morning light, looked paler and puffier than ever, but his eyes were kind. He had an idea. Dick's idea was that Majendie should run up with him and Mrs. Ransome to Scarby for the week-end. Hannay looked troubled as Dick unfolded his idea. "I wouldn't go, old man," said he, "with that head of yours." Dick stared. "Head? Just the thing for his head," said Dick.
His eyes still smiled, but his voice was harder: "Bygones are bygones. Isn't that so, Bobby?" "Since you wish it," Bobby said. But more important than the knowledge Graham desired, loomed the old question. What was the man's game? What held him here? Robinson entered. The flesh around his eyes was puffier than it had been yesterday. Worry had increased the incongruous discontent of his round face.
And long, long after, when we were driven by the Sons of the River from the swamps into the uplands, we took the seed of the rice with us and planted it. We learned to select the largest grains for the seed, so that all the rice we thereafter ate was larger-grained and puffier in the parching and the boiling. But Arunga. I have said she squalled and scratched like a cat when I stole her.
“Quite so, quite so!” murmured Lemuel, his lips looking puffier and more cherry-fied than ever and his chin flattened itself back till he looked like a frustrated old hen who did not understand the perplexities of life and was clucking to find out, after having been startled half out of its senses.
Only Dave knew how his blood leaped to that suggestion. But the world must go on. Conward's habitual cigarette hung from its accustomed short tooth, and his round, florid face seemed puffier than usual. His aversion to any exercise more vigorous than offered by a billiard cue was beginning to reflect itself in a premature rotundity of figure.
Whip up, Stephen! And the red and puffy face, redder and puffier still with immense fun, rode off. Adsly and his men disappeared also, to return with Cap'en Slade and his tackle on the morrow. Then Joe began to dance and scream like a little devil. "Have a ride! have a ride!
The doctor's friend was in the positive degree of hoarseness, puffiness, red-facedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy; the doctor in the comparative hoarser, puffier, more red-faced, more all-fourey, tobaccoer, dirtier, and brandier. 'Childbed? said the doctor.
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